Son speaks out after mom's cremation doesn't go as planned: 'Mistakes happen, but that wasn't respectable'

Son speaks out after mom's cremation doesn't go as planned: 'Mistakes happen, but that wasn't respectable'

PETERSBURG, Va. A Virginia funeral home is under investigation after a Hopewell man said it cremated his mother without him present, as agreed upon in their contract.Dwanyne Matthews's 71-year-old mother, Barbara Williams, died in his home on April 6.Matthews decided to have his mother cremated at J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home in Petersburg.There was an option in his contract with the facility to witness the cremation.On April 10, he initialed…